This page seems out of date or incomplete. LXDE requires a window manager, and currently none is automatically pulled in by the lxde package. The pacman command should probably be: 'pacman -Sy openbox lxde gamin' -- but I haven't tested that to see if it works. Alternatively, a section describing the alternative window managers that can be used with LXDE and how to install them should be added.

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== lxdm ==

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(For now, added a note clarifying the fact that some window manager will have to be installed for LXDE to work. Agreed that a more extensive re-write of this page might be better, but I'll leave that for somebody who knows LXDE better than I do.)

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I noticed that on this page there is no mention of using ''systemctl enable lxdm.service'' but on the [[Display Manager]] page that is what is described. I'm new here, so before I edit this page I just wanted to make sure that adding information so the two pages are in sync was okay. Thanks, [[User:Schultzter|Schultzter]] ([[User talk:Schultzter|talk]]) 04:04, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

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:Yes 'pacman -Sy openbox lxde gamin' works. I've just done that on a fresh install. Don't want to make edits directly since this is my first time ever on LXDE. [[User:Claestw|Claestw]] 19:21, 24 October 2009 (EDT)

Just to make a note of something I have been struggling with for quite some time:

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I was unable to get any setxkbmap command to work. Neither in the autostart, nor manually in a terminal window. Neither could I use xmodmap to do my tweak via xinitrc before I started lxde (that works for me with e.g. a barebones openbox, however), while it was possible to use xmodmap manually once LXDE was up and running.

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Turns out that the Keyboard Layout Handler in the panel overrides at least the setxkbmap command with its own set of "-option"s. So if you use that: don't try the autostart way described here, but use the GUI option. [[User:Persilja|Persilja]] ([[User talk:Persilja|talk]]) 18:11, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

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I noticed that on this page there is no mention of using systemctl enable lxdm.service but on the Display Manager page that is what is described. I'm new here, so before I edit this page I just wanted to make sure that adding information so the two pages are in sync was okay. Thanks, Schultzter (talk) 04:04, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

"Keyboard Layout Handler" versus setxkbmap and xmodmap

Just to make a note of something I have been struggling with for quite some time:
I was unable to get any setxkbmap command to work. Neither in the autostart, nor manually in a terminal window. Neither could I use xmodmap to do my tweak via xinitrc before I started lxde (that works for me with e.g. a barebones openbox, however), while it was possible to use xmodmap manually once LXDE was up and running.

Turns out that the Keyboard Layout Handler in the panel overrides at least the setxkbmap command with its own set of "-option"s. So if you use that: don't try the autostart way described here, but use the GUI option. Persilja (talk) 18:11, 22 August 2013 (UTC)